Emily Dickinson Lexicon

ROUND, v.t.

1. To make circular, spherical or cylindrical; as, to round a silver coin; to round the edges of any thing. Worms with many feet, that round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber. Bacon.
2. To surround; to encircle; to encompass. Th' inclusive verge / Of golden metal that must round my brow. Shak. Our little life is rounded with a sleep. Shak.
3. To form to the arch or figure of the section of a circle. The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to very great perfection. Addison.
4. To move about any thing; as, the sun, in polar regions, rounds the horizon. Milton.
5. To make full, smooth and flowing; as, to round periods in writing. Swift. To round in, among seamen, to pull upon a slack rope, which passes through one or more blocks in a direction nearly horizontal. Mar. Dict.